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Pedro Pascal
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoˈse ˈpeðɾo βalmaˈseða pasˈkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles on stage and television, Pascal had his breakout role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014). He gained further prominence with his portrayal of Javier Peña in the Netflix crime series Narcos (2015–2017). He went on to appear in the films The Great Wall (2016), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Equalizer 2 (2018), and Triple Frontier (2019).
Pascal's leading roles as Din Djarin in the Disney+ science fiction series The Mandalorian (2019–2023) and Joel Miller in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present) propelled him to international stardom, earning him a reputation for portraying adoptive father figures. For the latter role, he received numerous accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He also portrayed parental characters in We Can Be Heroes (2020), Strange Way of Life (2023), The Wild Robot (2024), and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025). Pascal has also starred in the films Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) and Gladiator II (2024).
Active in theatre since 1999, he made his Broadway debut as Edmund in a 2019 adaptation of King Lear. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born on April 2, 1975, in Santiago, Chile to Verónica Pascal Ureta (1953–2000), a child psychologist, and José Balmaceda Riera (1948–), a reproductive endocrinologist. Pascal has an older sister Javiera Balmaceda, a producer at Amazon MGM Studios, a younger brother Nicolás and a younger sister Lux, an actress. His paternal grandmother, Juanita, was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Through his parents Pascal is related to the aristocratic Allende and Balmaceda family. Pascal is the great-nephew of Laura Allende, a politician, and the second cousin of Denise Pascal, a Socialist Party politician, and Andrés Pascal Allende, a sociologist, former Secretary General of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left and prominent member of the Chilean Resistance and Solidarity Movement.
Two years before Pascal's birth, the democratically elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet, leading to the country becoming a military dictatorship. Both of Pascal's parents were listed as enemies of the state by the Pinochet regime and the family eventually fled Chile when he was nine months old, after seeking refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago for six months.
The family later received political asylum in Denmark before settling in the United States, where Pascal was raised in San Antonio, Texas, until they relocated to Orange County, California, when he was eleven years old. By the time he was eight years old, his family regularly visited Chile to see his 34 cousins. His parents returned to Chile in 1995 after his father Dr. José P. Balmaceda was accused of stealing fertility patients' eggs and embryos and implanting them in other women without their knowledge and consent.
He pursued acting at the Orange County School of the Arts and graduated in 1993, before attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 1997. After his mother's death, he began using his maternal surname professionally as a tribute to her and because he felt that Americans had difficulty pronouncing his paternal surname, Balmaceda.
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Pedro Pascal
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoˈse ˈpeðɾo βalmaˈseða pasˈkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles on stage and television, Pascal had his breakout role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014). He gained further prominence with his portrayal of Javier Peña in the Netflix crime series Narcos (2015–2017). He went on to appear in the films The Great Wall (2016), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Equalizer 2 (2018), and Triple Frontier (2019).
Pascal's leading roles as Din Djarin in the Disney+ science fiction series The Mandalorian (2019–2023) and Joel Miller in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present) propelled him to international stardom, earning him a reputation for portraying adoptive father figures. For the latter role, he received numerous accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He also portrayed parental characters in We Can Be Heroes (2020), Strange Way of Life (2023), The Wild Robot (2024), and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025). Pascal has also starred in the films Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) and Gladiator II (2024).
Active in theatre since 1999, he made his Broadway debut as Edmund in a 2019 adaptation of King Lear. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born on April 2, 1975, in Santiago, Chile to Verónica Pascal Ureta (1953–2000), a child psychologist, and José Balmaceda Riera (1948–), a reproductive endocrinologist. Pascal has an older sister Javiera Balmaceda, a producer at Amazon MGM Studios, a younger brother Nicolás and a younger sister Lux, an actress. His paternal grandmother, Juanita, was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Through his parents Pascal is related to the aristocratic Allende and Balmaceda family. Pascal is the great-nephew of Laura Allende, a politician, and the second cousin of Denise Pascal, a Socialist Party politician, and Andrés Pascal Allende, a sociologist, former Secretary General of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left and prominent member of the Chilean Resistance and Solidarity Movement.
Two years before Pascal's birth, the democratically elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet, leading to the country becoming a military dictatorship. Both of Pascal's parents were listed as enemies of the state by the Pinochet regime and the family eventually fled Chile when he was nine months old, after seeking refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago for six months.
The family later received political asylum in Denmark before settling in the United States, where Pascal was raised in San Antonio, Texas, until they relocated to Orange County, California, when he was eleven years old. By the time he was eight years old, his family regularly visited Chile to see his 34 cousins. His parents returned to Chile in 1995 after his father Dr. José P. Balmaceda was accused of stealing fertility patients' eggs and embryos and implanting them in other women without their knowledge and consent.
He pursued acting at the Orange County School of the Arts and graduated in 1993, before attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 1997. After his mother's death, he began using his maternal surname professionally as a tribute to her and because he felt that Americans had difficulty pronouncing his paternal surname, Balmaceda.